Living, hunting and raising young together, this social spider forms one of the largest cooperative groups of any arachnid in ...

Ants are a superorganism – a group of organisms of the same species all working together in synergy. Rather than acting as individuals, they’ve evolved to operate as a unified organism – dividing ...

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The term fisher cat is believed to stem from European settlers in North America who misidentified the fisher for a polecat ...

For more than a year, marine animals were mysteriously dropping dead: around one million animals were wiped out and some humans even got sick. Now, scientists have confirmed that the culprit behind ...

With rising deer populations destroying woodlands, the UK faces a simple question: why aren’t we eating more of them?

These colossal clams were rumoured to kill humans but the opposite is true – climate change, pollution and overharvesting are ...

Koala bears are an iconic marsupial native to Australia, living in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the country ...

But its showstopper feature is that the front part of its head is transparent. Early scientific drawings of this intriguing ...

Take the dewdrop spiders, a group of tiny tropical species that specialise in pilfering prey caught by larger orb-web spiders ...

The remains were discovered in the Stora Förvar cave, an archaeological site on the island frequently used by seal hunters ...

This was a disaster for native wildlife that, having not evolved alongside mink, had few defences. The small, agile predator ...